Teachers who work with English as a Second Language learners will find ESL/ESOL/ELL/EFL reading/writing skill-building children's books, stories, activities, ideas, strategies to help PreK-3, 4-8, and 9-12 students learn to read.
Iowa
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As of the 2007-2008 school year, Iowa's schools were home to more than 19,700 English language learners (ELLs), which marks a 145% increase from the 1997-1998 school year (NCELA, 2010). The top five languages or language groups spoken by ELLs in Iowa are Spanish, Pennsylvania Dutch, German, French, and Arabic (EPE, 2009).
State ELL Resources
State Agency: Iowa Department of Education
ELL Website: English Language Learners
ELL Manual: Educating Iowa's English Language Learners: A Handbook for Administrators and Teachers
ELL Identification
Home Language Survey: A Home Language Survey is required for all newly enrolling students. The Home Language Survey may be found in a secure site that requires a password at transact.com. Details are provide on page 13 of the ELL Handbook.
Placement Exam: Iowa allows for flexibility of assessment instruments. Suggestions are found on page 58 of the ELL Handbook.
ELP Standards & Assessment
ELP Standards: Iowa's Guidelines for Implementing English Language Proficiency Standards and Iowa's English language proficiency standards
ELP Assessment: Iowa English Language Development Assessment [I-ELDA]
ELL Instruction
Iowa Department of Education provides information about program models and purposes on pages 27-42 of its ELL Handbook.
Statewide Standards-Based Assessment
Assessment: Iowa Assessments
ELL Accommodations: Information is available on the Iowa Assessments homepage.
Additional Information
NCELA: Title III Information
Common Core State Standards: Yes
Iowa ELL Demographics, Standards, and Title III Information
Information collected by NCELA, including state English Language Proficiency standards, content standards assessments, Title III information, and demographics.
Iowa State Education Association
Iowa State Education Association is a National Education Association State Affiliate that regularly lobbies legislators for the resources schools need, campaigns for higher professional standards for the teaching profession, and files legal actions to protect academic freedom and the rights of school employees.
Iowa State Parent Information Resource Centers
The mission of the Iowa Statewide PIRC is to inspire, engage and support parents, schools and communities to improve learning and developmental outcomes for children and youth.
MIDTESOL serves mid-America teachers of English from Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, and Missouri to speakers of other languages.
References
Editorial Projects in Education (EPE). "Most Common Non-English Languages Spoken by ELL Youths, by State." Perspectives on a Population: English-Language Learners in American Schools (Education Week's Quality Counts 2009 Report). Pg. 13. Retrieved from http://www.edweek.org/ew/toc/2009/01/08/index.html. January 2009.
Office of English Language Acquisition, Language Enhancement, and Academic Achievement for Limited English Proficient Students. Iowa Rate of EL Growth (1997/98-2007/08). Compiled July 2010 and retrieved from http://www.ncela.gwu.edu/t3sis/state/iowa/data.
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